Do you have a religion?

[Hakulyte]

Re: Do you have a religion?

I don't think Mina is wrong, I just think we don't see the same topic the same way.
I believe he was more targeting the concept of being religious which is by definition not flexible.

I guess it's just me being dumb with semantics and not realizing that having a religion doesn't necessary makes you religious as someone who invest a lot of time into the religion related to them.
Just because you don't have a lot of devotion, doesn't mean that you're going to reject your own religion still.

I personally think religion is not religion anymore if you force religion into someone.
Depending on which religion we're talking about, this may become a nonsense because there's definitely religions that wants you to fully believe in them.

I think we both just didn't take the time to further define what we were talking about.

Also, being smart has little to do with religion.
It just means you have a certain talent at giving yourself the tools to go through school properly.
I'm pretty sure you're aware that intelligence has multiple facets and that you can be really good at certain things while not at others.
I have friends who destroyed university like it was a joke and there's many fields where they can't compete at all even with the average person.
They just had a way of thinking that was very efficient at dealing with whatever school was throwing at them.

[MinaciousGrace]

Re: Do you have a religion?

i mean the op reeks of the same moral and ideological superiority complex that plagues most modern organized religions

you didn't make a post indicating you wanted to survey the theological landscape of users on the site, that's one thing, it would still probably devolve into what this had but at least I wouldn't have been a part of it

YOU made a post intended to stir up a conversation so you could ram down your hipster religion ideologies into other people's throats using your "ivy league friends" as some sort of ridiculous overpowering authority and you expected everyone to just sit back and let you lecture them on how their perception of the world is unenlightened

and i understand that i pissed you off because i intended to, but you're not pissed off at me, somewhere deep down inside you realize how ridiculously shallow and hypocritical everything in this thread you've said has been and you resent the fact that i made you reckon with it

[MinaciousGrace]

Re: Do you have a religion?

I think we both just didn't take the time to further define what we were talking about.

i made it pretty crystal clear that selectively choosing which elements of a religion to believe in disqualifies you for being of that religion, and continuing to identify as that religion in order to impose your altered version of the belief system unto others voids the entire purpose of it

in case you missed it- christians are commanded to proselytize, it's part of the christian duty to serving god, you can't abandon that responsibility and then still claim your soul is going to be saved

[Walrusizer]

Re: Do you have a religion?

EDIT: Also LOL dude I didn't realize you spent so much of your post saying, "ivy league ppl are dumb tho!!!" Nah dude. My friends are actually way smarter than you. They didn't get into Princeton because of their parent's money, because most of my friends are on hella financial aid.

Retards also can't get straight A's at the Ivy League school known for grade deflation too, sucka. I have a brain. Ooooweee

fuckin lmao

[Hakulyte]

Re: Do you have a religion?

I see your point. I'm just afraid this thread will get boring fast if we remove the potential thinking freedom.

DO NOT FLAME RELIGIONS HERE DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT

I cannot see how this will not happen if we try to justify beliefs in something without proof. So, if this is the thread direction, I'm out of here lol.

[Travis_Flesher]

More omniscient parables

God awareness is the most basic chakra power generator you guys should know that by now.

[Funnygurl555]

Re: Do you have a religion?

oh right sorry i'm wrong because i make assumptions about your friends but it's ok for you to make assumptions about my friends because you hold the moral high ground here... because religion!

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you do realize im not religious, right? i also made an appropriate inference for your one friend who's a pompous dumbass

i gotta show soon so ima deuce for now. didnt read most of what you said. should i?...

edit: mods, you can lock this if you want lol im sorry i derailed this thread. i normally try to keep my cool, but minas just really annoying.

[MinaciousGrace]

Re: Do you have a religion?

an appropriate inference

again, defending your use of something while chastising mine

or even more accurately using something you attack me for doing to justify doing another thing you also attack me for doing

next time don't pick fights you can't win and won't concede

to reiterate the shitty condescending op was picking a fight

[lofty rhino]

Re: Do you have a religion?

•Oh, and you shouldn't use only one em- dash in a sentence, my dude.

-You're wrong. You absolutely can use an em dash on its own, and it functions as a semi-colon with a slightly longer break in the sentence.

I have a terminal degree in creative writing, and teach English; maybe you should stop there.

Here's a quote to back my previous statement: "[Em] dashes can be used in pairs like parentheses—that is, to enclose a word, or a phrase, or a clause—or they can be used alone to detach one end of a sentence from the main body."

Poets, and by the way, I've worked with the last poet laureate in workshops (just to humor your elitist tendencies), use the latter function quite frequently.

If you would have even bothered to look up em dash usage on google images, both usages would have come up. Do they not teach you how to utilize even the most simple of resources at your school?

•I think you're friends with MinaciousGrace because I don't know you, but I'm probably right.

-You're right, but I don't need to defend him. He is more than capable. I said what I said because you're perpetuating nonsensical elitism. Also, I'm three years and change older than you--not that age has anything to do with this.

*A note: sometimes, em dashes are stylized by typists as two hyphens.

•Retards also can't get straight A's at the Ivy League school known for grade deflation too, sucka. I have a brain. Ooooweee

Haha, whatever dude.

[rushyrulz]

Re: Do you have a religion?

Does God exist ? No ? Prove it ? You can't.

Just gonna pop in here to say that people who reject a claim do not hold the burden of proof. People who make (extraordinary) claims are the ones who are required to prove those claims, and it is not the responsibility of rejectors of the claim to prove it false. This is especially important when said claims are unfalsifiable. See: The Dragon In My Garage.

[Kr1sp]

Re: Do you have a religion?

Im a Mormon. I was born into the church. i kinda like it, not only does everybody there give me support that i really need, i know God is there for me. its very comforting. It is also a really good way too keep my morals and shape me into possibly the best person I can be, and i am very grateful for it

[MixMasterLar]

Re: Do you have a religion?

but keep in mind that the Bible and everything it says wasn't made for this generation. There's a gap that creates itself as society evolves and humanity is evolving fast right now. So, it is important that religion also evolve as well to stay relevant until things are proven one way or the other.

Actually, you're suppose to keep your life relevant to religion not the other way around. I don't know of a major religion that's like "yep might as well change so that people can have an easier time with it"

If we're sticking with the Christian Bible, then everything the New Testament says is still the rules until the earth ends or we get the Neo New Testament (which I'm pretty sure is not going to happen); how that jives with the zeitgeist is pretty much our problem and not God's.

YOU made a post intended to stir up a conversation so you could ram down your hipster religion ideologies into other people's throats using your "ivy league friends" as some sort of ridiculous overpowering authority and you expected everyone to just sit back and let you lecture them on how their perception of the world is unenlightened

I'm extremely sure this never happened.

[MixMasterLar]

Re: Do you have a religion?

Just gonna pop in here to say that people who reject a claim do not hold the burden of proof. People who make (extraordinary) claims are the ones who are required to prove those claims, and it is not the responsibility of rejectors of the claim to prove it false. This is especially important when said claims are unfalsifiable. See: The Dragon In My Garage.

I want to go on record and say this is absolutely true

Im a Mormon. I was born into the church. i kinda like it, not only does everybody there give me support that i really need, i know God is there for me. its very comforting. It is also a really good way too keep my morals and shape me into possibly the best person I can be, and i am very grateful for it

I have a high level of respect for how Mormons carry their lives. Although I won't claim to be of their faith/in agreement with their beliefs, their churches do good work.

[rushyrulz]

Re: Do you have a religion?

I think funnygurl is actually a gurl but u rite ninja

[Mahou]

Re: Do you have a religion?

Now kids

It’s okay to disagree sometimes.